AUSTRALIAN TEMPERANCE: A MINI-CONFERENCE ON THE VIRTUES OF SELF-CONTROL AND MODERATION IN AUSTRALIAN LIFE PAST AND PRESENT
Our draft conference program is now available – please see below. If you would like to attend, please email Cathy Legg ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ). Registration is free.
This conference is funded by the ARC Discovery Grant: "Restraint: Recovering the Virtue of Self-Control or Temperance to Strengthen the Australian Social Fabric". For further information, please see our website: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/restraintproj.html
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Date: Saturday December 6th, 2008
Location: Sydney, University of NSW, Old Main Building 144A (enter through east end of Red Centre Building)
Draft Program:
9:00 – 9.45 “Welcome. Overview of the Project”
James Franklin (UNSW)
9:45 – 10.30 “Addiction and the Elements of Self-control”
Jeanette Kennett (ANU and Monash University)
10:30 – 11:00 “Mistakes in restraining petrol sniffing”
Jenness Warin
11:00 – 11:30 MORNING TEA
11:30 – 12:20 “From the Culture of Wowserism to the culture of Healthism:
Law, Custom, Fashion and Etiquette in Australian Smoking, 1900-1990s”
Ian Tyrrell (UNSW)
12:20 – 1:10 “A Case of Life and Death: Crime & Self-Control in Gin Lane”
Judy Stove (Research Assistant, Restraint Project)
1.10 – 2:10 LUNCH BREAK (lunch provided)
2:10 – 3.00 “Restraint, Art and Moralism”
Craig Taylor (Flinders University)
3.00 – 3:50 “Pornography, Censorship and Strategies for Self-Regulation”
Gerald Keaney (University of Queensland)
3:50 – 4:20 AFTERNOON TEA
4:20 – 5.00 “The Phenomenon of Extended Childhood Incontinence:
Abandonment of Toilet-training of Today’s Infants & Toddlers”
Anna Christie
5.00 – 5:45 “Where to From Here?”
Catherine Legg (University of Waikato)
6:30 CONFERENCE DINNER (venue TBA)
Please see the conference website: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/restraintconf.html for paper abstracts and further information.